Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-06-05
RAILRoAp TAX.


Yesterday afternoon q Pear ISTELLx
GEcK1 reporter fell Ia with g Rentls-
man thoroughly postsd in railroad nat
ters heFsabonts. VIE. for esrtAfn EeA-
sons, requested thst his name be With
hsld for The present, after which be
said; ~Ths Seattle, Lake Shore 4 East
srn Railway Company nov has forty
fsur miles Of is road uader contract.
and the voFk i being pushed ahead a.
rSpidly - possible. This forty four
miles iaelndes spur three quarters Of
mile 10 length, diveFefnR from the
main track over n the A1srsvs Coal
Nine, IN the Sqask Wiley Tbs work
Of openinR the mine il veil IN
der way, ana il il the intention
Of the company 70 commences ship
ping coal this fall, iast as soon
IS ths road ia consisted 20 that point
Tame aFrangaments have beeu msds
between the ooal company ard the rail
road company. snd the dsy the road i
completed 90 the mines the coal com
pany will be in position to ship 1000
tons Of coal per dag 20 salt water. Saw
il only sbips 500 tons per day, at 20
sents per ton. the road will have 3 Feve-
rue Of 500 Ger day from coal alone.
TIE grade 10 mash easier than the
Grades on the Columbia and Puget
Ssand Rad, although tbs distance is
little further. TIE company expects tn
earn $3.50 per day from passengers sn4
local fFeights outside Of coal, which vill
swell the earnings on tbs first "A miles
70 $500 per day. vhioh will be very
handsome. The road will not stop
At the coal mines. Another 20 miles
section, whiek viii carry II 30 the foot
Of the Cascade Mountains. will BE- let
this month. Eaginsars are erewdinR
the work, and hope to have il resdv -
that bids may he called for the grading
by the 18th. The n lrthern Pseifis hsv=
sixty surveyors running lines from the
Common Point over into King counlv,
bat as the iron mines in the Snoqusl
ME are owned BY Seattle people, that
oompaay is not likely 10 get much trade
evsn though il build q road over into
our territory; and then. you know, that
company does not build ell the lines it
surveys, ri Der. The Columbis d Pu
get Sound Company has it, lines all
surveyed from q point on the Cedar
River extension 10 Common Point, and
from there on up to the SaOqua' ME
river, striking tha. stream q short dis
tsnce above che falls. and running from
there toward the Suoq1almie pass, and
tbess are she liHss it proposes to build
with the $500. 900 derived from ths in
creased issus II $4,000 900 stock to BE-
made by the OREGON improvement Com
pany on the 20sh of this month.
think the Northern Paoiac IL q uTing 10
get control Of the Oregon Improv msnt
Company, judging by the way the lat
ter's stock mas advanced lately. | see il
is now quoted ~ 81 On Wall street, when
only two or thre. wears ago 1t vent beg
0ing at 8 aud 3. If the Northsrn SAINTS
to come into Seattle, and / think il
does, this would be its means
of doing so, as then il could Robble Ut
all the vast mud fais in the south end
Of the CITY, comprising thousands of
acres Of land within the city limits,
which were granted to the SEATTLE and
WaIla WslIa Rsilraad, now the Colum-
bia and Puget $ Iund Railroad, which
il controlled and owned by the Oregon
Improvement Company, IN 1873, by the
Territorial Legislature, and since held
by that campanV and its SUCCESSORS
| tell you, il WON'T go az Till Seattle u
tue Puget s iund tefia.nas Of at least
three transsontin~ntsl rail -sads, the
C4ndaian Pacific. by connection with
tse Seattle and West Coast road at Fort
Ii sps, the St. Paul, Minneapolis
aud Manitoba railroad oy its
connection With the Seattle, Lax
Shore and Eastern. the Union Pacific
by its connection With the Shore Line
at Stuck Juoetion by short line from
the Columbia, aud the Northern Pac nc.
by way Of TIE Common Point and &c
daF River Extension, II ii succeeds it
eobbling up the D. |. Company. This
would make its Cascade branch line to
Seattle Is miles shorter and 30 mile
nearer the sea than to Tacoma. Ga, ]
tell you Seattle is all risht, and she
opens her arms, and bids all these road
welc M. There is room enough here
for all that want to come"